Gen 45:28, Jer 31:15-17, Eze 34:4, 16, Mat 18:11-13, Luk 15:4, 8, 19:10 | ESV | STEP | And Israel said , It is enough ; Joseph my son is still alive . I will go and see him before I die .

h[See ver. 3 above]

i[See ver. 3 above]

j[Matt. 18:12; Luke 15:4]

k Ex. 1:13, 14; [1 Pet. 5:3]

l[ver. 4]

m Mic. 4:6

n[ver. 20; Isa. 10:16; Amos 4:1]

p ch. 17:25; 21:28

qFor ver. 12-14, [Luke 15:4-7]

rFor ver. 4-7, [Matt. 18:12-14]

s Ezek. 34:6; [1 Pet. 2:25]

t[Ex. 3:1; 1 Sam. 17:28]

u Ezek. 34:4, 11, 12, 16; [ch. 19:10]

w Ezek. 34:11, 16; [ch. 15:4; Matt. 9:13; 10:6; 15:24; 18:12]

Genesis 45:28

28 And Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Jeremiah 31:15-17

15 Thus says the Lord:
^a“A voice is heard in ^bRamah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
^cRachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
^dbecause they are no more.”
16 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep your voice from weeping,
and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,

declares the Lord,
and ^ethey shall come back from the land of the enemy.
17 ^fThere is hope for your future,

declares the Lord,
and your children shall come back to their own country.

Ezekiel 34:4

4 ^gThe weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, ^hthe injured you have not bound up, ⁱthe strayed you have not brought back, ^jthe lost you have not sought, and with force and ^kharshness you have ruled them.

Ezekiel 34:16

16 ^lI will seek the lost, ^mand I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and ⁿthe fat and the strong I will destroy. ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over} I will feed them in justice.

Matthew 18:11-13

12 ^pWhat do you think? ^qIf a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Luke 15:4

4 ^r“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, ^sif he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine ^tin the open country, and ^ugo after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 15:8

The Parable of the Lost Coin

8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, ^{▼▼Greek ten drachmas; a drachma was a Greek coin approximately equal in value to a Roman denarius, worth about a day’s wage for a laborer} if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

Luke 19:10

10 For ^wthe Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”